Our lives are in a constant state of change. The very nature of growth and the maturation process dictate that we will change continually. Yet, as human beings, we resist the changes that come. Sometimes that resistance seems to be expressed with every ounce of strength that is in us. A classic line from Star Trek sums up my understanding of the results of that struggle, “Resistance is futile . . .”
There is certainly a strength that results form consistency in our lives, but the truth is that the only consistency that truly brings lasting strength and peace is the consistency of obedience to Christ. Growth must, by necessity, result in change. If we cling to long to the way we have always done things, then we will, in the end, fail. As one proverbial saying puts it, “To do the same thing over and over again and expect different results is insanity.”
We are a people of growth. We must be in a constant state of change in order to truly grow. As we draw nearer to Jesus, there will be change in our lives. At the same time, as we draw nearer to Jesus the more consistently we will be like Him. 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 (The Message) sums this process of growth and change up nicely:
There is certainly a strength that results form consistency in our lives, but the truth is that the only consistency that truly brings lasting strength and peace is the consistency of obedience to Christ. Growth must, by necessity, result in change. If we cling to long to the way we have always done things, then we will, in the end, fail. As one proverbial saying puts it, “To do the same thing over and over again and expect different results is insanity.”
We are a people of growth. We must be in a constant state of change in order to truly grow. As we draw nearer to Jesus, there will be change in our lives. At the same time, as we draw nearer to Jesus the more consistently we will be like Him. 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 (The Message) sums this process of growth and change up nicely:
Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We're free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.
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